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Jacob Licklider CR: The Suns of Caresh
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Trumpet player, Doctor Who fan, actual scientist I guess, and Cyclops. Has a comics podcast. He/him.

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The most recent taste in my mouth is a very specific type of bad anti-racism film, we really should just forget the Titans. #LastFourWatched
Recent activity Letterboxd screenshot featuring posters of Remember the Titans (2000), Demi Adejuyigbe is Going to Do One (1) Backflip (2005), Dark Star (1974), and Good Will Hunting (1997) scoring each 2.5, 4.0, 3.5, and 5.0 stars respectively
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Remember the Titans (2000) - Better left forgotten among other we ended racism movies.

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A ★★½ review of Remember the Titans (2000)
My high school's football team was called the Titans and there definitely were teachers obsessed with this movie, but I'd never seen it. It's not a totally worthless endeavor of a film, the cast is fa...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Tonight Fresh-Faced Comics (and guests @thegd256.bsky.social and @chelsseashells.bsky.social) will be recording our second episode covering Alias with the second volume Come Home!

Get your comments/questions/opinions in below!
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TONIGHT: @newt5996.bsky.social and I, with returning guests @thegd256.bsky.social and @chelsseashells.bsky.social, are recording the next episode of Fresh-Faced Comics, talking about volume 2 of #JessicaJones Alias!

Send any questions or comments below and we'll discuss them on the podcast! :)
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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TONIGHT: @newt5996.bsky.social and I, with returning guests @thegd256.bsky.social and @chelsseashells.bsky.social, are recording the next episode of Fresh-Faced Comics, talking about volume 2 of #JessicaJones Alias!

Send any questions or comments below and we'll discuss them on the podcast! :)
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Dark Star (1974) - Even student filmmaker John Carpenter has a lot of his own class.

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A ★★★½ review of Dark Star (1974)
John Carpenter’s directorial debut is an incredibly low budget film cowritten by Dan O’Bannon and there’s a sequence that’s basically Alien but with Rover from The Prisoner with bumps and arms.  Dark ...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories: Not a bad story in the lot. Highlighting different writers and directors is a particular strength of the set. Each episode plays on a different type of horror story which is particularly nice and avoids the issues of 1 hour Doctor Who stories because of how
Cover of Doctor Who: Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories featuring the TARDIS battered sitting on the beach in a fog.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Halloween: Merlin’s Trap by: Hannah Kennedy: Disaster lesbians the sequel. Okay not really, but this is a horror tragedy of a group of friends going down into caves apparently belonging to Merlin. Things begin going oddly as their friendships unravel and they start being picked off one by one in a
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Good Will Hunting (1997) - Robin Williams was one of the best to ever do it.

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A ★★★★★ review of Good Will Hunting (1997)
Leave it to a Robin Williams performance of just repeating a single line with the most possible sincerity to clinch an already good movie into one of my new favorites.  Williams really was one of the ...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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The Sandlot (1993) - Stand By Me without any of the charm or bite and added baseball.

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A ★★ review of The Sandlot (1993)
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug that for The Sandlot I’m not at all influenced by.  This is not a good film, but it is one people love.  It’s basically every Stephen King trope about growing up put in...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Halloween: Bramble King by: Noga Flaishon: I don’t know what exactly took me so long to get around to this one because it was pretty fun. Flaishon is trying to play around with what makes a person a person in something that reads like an alien ghost story mixed with a classic fairy tale which is
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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It’s nice to see a fairly hefty run in the Marvel universe not be a typical superhero book. On this week’s Fresh-Faced Comics @jomoblooddonut.bsky.social, guests @thegd256.bsky.social and @chelsseashells.bsky.social, and I discuss the first nine issues of Alias by Brian Michael Bendis.
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A book about well-adjusted people.

The latest episode of Fresh-Faced Comics is here, in which @newt5996.bsky.social, @thegd256.bsky.social, @chelsseashells.bsky.social, and I discuss #JessicaJones Alias Volume 1!

Available anywhere you listen to podcasts! :)

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November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A book about well-adjusted people.

The latest episode of Fresh-Faced Comics is here, in which @newt5996.bsky.social, @thegd256.bsky.social, @chelsseashells.bsky.social, and I discuss #JessicaJones Alias Volume 1!

Available anywhere you listen to podcasts! :)

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November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Doctor Who: Robot (1975) - Tom Baker immediately shines an elevates a story that’s otherwise just fine.

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A ★★★ review of Doctor Who: Robot (1975)
The first episode of Robot is a contender for one of the strongest single episodes of Doctor Who.  It’s full of intrigue and just moves along at a fantastic pace, allowing Tom Baker to immediately mak...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Once again I'm a day late on this but this week's #StarTrek is Booby Trap, an episode with a perfectly well done A-plot and a B-plot that is basically 1980s romance tropes which haven't aged great:

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Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation "Booby Trap" of Geordi La Forge and Dr. Leah Brahms (giving Geordi a shoulder massage) on the holodeck.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Robert Shearman’s other #DoctorWho audio novelization is shorter but no less interesting. This is Jubilee:

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Book cover of Doctor Who: Jubilee featuring a crudely drawn Dalek exploding into bunting on a cream white background.
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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As I did with the adult side of Phase III of #StarWars The High Republic I have thoughts on the YA side with Defy the Storm:

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Cover of Star Wars: The High Republic: Defy the Storm, a group shot of the novel's protagonists surrounded by the heavily armored Nihil.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) - The only adaptation we need.

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A ★★★★ review of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Okay it’s still the middle of November but tonight feels like a night to need a bit of that Christmas spirit so I went with Seuss’ parable about the holidays as a time for togetherness and not somethi...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Footloose (1984) - I really shouldn’t have had such a fun time with this.

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A ★★★½ review of Footloose (1984)
For everything it is and does, Footloose is a movie I shouldn’t find myself liking.  Steeped in the mid-1980s the plot is a ridiculous runaround about teenage rebellion against the adults that don’t e...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Goodfellas (1990) - Definitely made by an Italian American who understands the hollowness of certain rituals.

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A ★★★★½ review of GoodFellas (1990)
What interested me most about Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas is how the film works as this perfect mirror structurally.  The rise and fall of a gangster isn’t exactly a new story, though this is one of ...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Matt Fraction’s #Batman continues to work as standalone issues while clearly now building to a multi issue story with issue 3. Also it acknowledges and characterizes Tim Drake.
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The Riddler? Oh yeah, he's doing fine. Just fine.

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #Batman on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shot!

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November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The Riddler? Oh yeah, he's doing fine. Just fine.

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #Batman on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shot!

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November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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American Beauty (1999) - Probably hit harder in 1999 but also Kevin Spacey is playing Kevin Spacey and all of the visuals are the most heavy handed pieces of symbolism I've ever seen.

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A ★½ review of American Beauty (1999)
I'd love to say that the discomfort in watching American Beauty is 100% entirely intentional and part of the film's black comedy. But if I'm being totally honest I don't think that it is, I think it's...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Democrats are pioneering the field of "pyrrhic loses."
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Frankenstein (2025) - I don't know how people are saying it doesn't feel like Shelley because it does.

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A ★★★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025)
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is my first del Toro film but like the fifth adaptation of Shelley's Frankenstein I've seen. I've got a feeling that on a rewatch I might actually find this to be one...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (1974) - I have a soft spot for this one despite some of the mess. Thematically it’s quite rich but there’s also a 20 minute chase scene.

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A ★★★½ review of Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Jon Pertwee’s time on Doctor Who comes to an end with a story that’s a big celebration to all the things that this production crew loved to do.  There is an entire episode that is just a chase with se...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM